They loveH1-B slaves
Morons. Just a bunch of morons. It was never about AMERICAN jobs, it is about CHEAP EXPLOITATIVE jobs.
Well yeah. That’s why they are gonna round up all the undocumented people, put them in privatized work camps, give them a 100k bill, and make them work it off before deportation at 10 cents per hour.
With zero regulation, and poor record keeping, these people will be reduced to numbers.
Remind you of anything?
This isn’t even necessarily true. Most of my friends migrated to the US on H1-B. It’s about poaching global talent. It’s not like US tech can only rely on US labor.
US labor can leave for another job if they don’t like it.
An H1-B employee can’t leave.
That is why they want the H1-B employees.
It definitely could. Now whether that’s the best thing for profits is a different question.
There’s a profit angle in terms of keeping wages down, but there’s also a competitive angle. Having a bigger talent pool to draw on means you get better talent, particularly when you’re in the top spot in terms of pay, quality of life, professional achievement, etc.
^ This. It’s just a matter of will. Mammon demands that they drive labor costs toward zero, though, even if that means throwing their own citizens overboard, and fucking over a lot of foreign workers.
It’s not like US tech can only rely on US labor.
Oh, they definitely could.
How so? 25% of FAANG workers are foreign-born and the growth of US tech labor is significantly lower than the demand. Are there policy proposals for addressing that while remaining globally competitive?
The growth is lower than the demand, so salaries should be skyrocketing, right? But that’s not what the numbers show. So I think you’re using the word “demand” in rather specific way.
No. The domestic labor growth is lower than the demand, so the demand is met with the foreign workers necessary.
Could and should are two separate issues. They could do it only with us workers it would just be ruinous.
Exactly what I’m trying to argue. It’s also a strange issue on the left where progressivism in the form of increased job security and regressivism in the form of nativist immigration policy clash.
Lol, hilariously racist and stupid about it - “all the brown people must go, except the ones I personally need to exploit”
“Hey! That’s not ultranationalist fascism!”
Well, it still kinda is, but the dipshits in the base only see brown people taking white jobs. It’s more than just that, though - the foreigners often get royally fucked in the process, so the racist thought leaders are just fine with it. They just have to convince the average dipshit that has a donvict flag on their property/truck.
Now that they’ve won they don’t care about anything they said on the campaign trail (they never did). They are going to maximize shareholder profit by importing slave labor from foreign countries, the working class be damned.
You’d think the MAGA tools would be all for it, telling workers in at-risk industries to be “more hardcore” or “learn to code (more)” or whatever the fuck. Like they jeered others losing their jobs…
